Hers to Tame by Rhenna Morgan

Author:Rhenna Morgan [Morgan, Rhenna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-30T20:27:01+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Clearly, Kir was lacking in the skills necessary to navigate a relationship. Protecting and providing for a woman he could do, and ensuring pleasure was...well, a pleasure. But finding his way through the mercenary terrain of a tight-lipped woman with clenched fists? That was something Sergei had failed to warn him about. How lost he’d feel, or for that matter, how terrifying making a misstep would be. He’d faced down dangerous men armed to the teeth more times than he could count, and never once felt this powerless.

Cassie stared out the windshield, her features pinched in concentration. If she noted the beautiful Creole and Victorian style mansions passing them by, she didn’t show it. Just kept her gaze trained straight ahead and held her body locked solid.

He made the last turn onto Sergei’s street then covered one of her fisted hands with his own. “Sergei texted while you were packing. Evette and Emerson are both looking forward to seeing you. The accommodations are quite comfortable. You’ll see.”

Slowly, she lowered her head and studied his hand on hers. A mix of bewilderment and strain colored her soft voice. “It’s not where I’m staying. It’s not being around Evette or anyone else in your family.”

“Then what is it?”

She lifted her head. Raw fear and uncertainty burned behind her beautiful eyes. “I plan things. I’m methodical. Logical. I’ve been raised to be that way since I can remember. But in the last three weeks, my life has gone from routine days at work and take-out dinners, to romance with a man who doesn’t do subtle or slow, a world I have no clue how to navigate and a possible murderer nosing into my life. It’s a lot, Kir, and I don’t know how to handle it.”

She had a point. Several of them, actually. And if he hadn’t been so focused on logistics and his own fears, he might have seen them for himself. “You are right.” He released her hand and turned into Sergei’s driveway.

“I am?”

He nodded, put the car in park and faced her. “I cannot change who I am and the way I was raised any more than you. I will not ignore the threat to you and will ask that, where your safety is concerned, you will exercise patience, but I will endeavor to give you time to adjust to our relationship.”

Her frown would have been comical if the topic at hand didn’t have him so vexed. “You say that like we’d agreed to marry each other last night. We’re dating. Not marching down a path to matrimony.”

Oh, yes, they were. It might have taken some verbal bludgeoning from Sergei and Roman to get him to realize what a good thing he’d found, but now that he’d acknowledged it, he wasn’t letting her go.

Still, he wasn’t stupid. “You are the first relationship I’ve entered into. I would not take such an action lightly.”

Her eyebrows hopped high. “I’m your first girlfriend?”

Girlfriend? Such a paltry representation for what he wanted from her.

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